Andréia Moreira is a fifth-generation coffee producer in São Sebastião da Bela Vista, a hillside town in the southern Minas Geraís growing zone. Her farm, Fazenda São José, sits between 900 and 1,200 meters, on land her family has worked for over a century. She grows both dry process and pulp natural lots. This is one of the latter.
Andréia partners with Agrorigem, a Sul de Minas exporter run by Dani Alkmin. Dani has built her business around the underrepresented producers of this region, and she is the president of Mulheres Empreendedoras do Café, a regional women's coffee association that pulls in producers, mill workers, exporters, and roasters. Andréia is a member.
This is the first coffee from Brazil for Dry Heat Coffee in a while, and is quite different from what is usually on the menu. Brazil does an outstanding savory-sweet, nutty, low-acid profile better than anywhere else, and a well-made pulp natural is the cleanest way to allow those expressions to come forward.
Pulp Natural: Cherries are mechanically depulped, then dried with a layer of mucilage still on the bean, no fermentation tank or rinse cycle. The dried mucilage acts like a thin honey coat, giving you something between a washed cup and a honey process: mild, nutty, lightly sweet, with a touch more body than a fully washed Brazil.
Cupping notes: Roasted nuts open into caramel-drizzled peanut and almond meal. Mid-palate moves to cocoa-dusted almond. Finish lands at chocolate-dipped pretzel, savory and sweet at the same time. Mild body, mild acidity, very approachable. It is a good light-to-medium drinker, and it pulls cleanly as espresso.
Resting: Best 21+ days after roast.
Best brewed as: Moccamaster, Clever Dripper, or espresso.
8 oz. / 227 g WHOLE BEAN
Country: Brazil
Region: São Sebastião da Bela Vista, Sul de Minas
Producer: Andréia Moreira, Fazenda São José
Varietal: Modern Hybrids
Process: Pulp Natural
Roast Level: Light
Elevation: 900-1,200 masl
Tasting Notes: Caramel, Peanut, Almond, Cocoa
Good For: All Brew Methods, including espresso
Body: Medium, Smooth
(Coffee is roasted on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month. Orders placed by 5:00 PM EST on the preceding Tuesday are included in that week's roast and ship Friday. Orders placed after the cutoff will be roasted in the next cycle.)
Andréia Moreira is a fifth-generation coffee producer in São Sebastião da Bela Vista, a hillside town in the southern Minas Geraís growing zone. Her farm, Fazenda São José, sits between 900 and 1,200 meters, on land her family has worked for over a century. She grows both dry process and pulp natural lots. This is one of the latter.
Andréia partners with Agrorigem, a Sul de Minas exporter run by Dani Alkmin. Dani has built her business around the underrepresented producers of this region, and she is the president of Mulheres Empreendedoras do Café, a regional women's coffee association that pulls in producers, mill workers, exporters, and roasters. Andréia is a member.
This is the first coffee from Brazil for Dry Heat Coffee in a while, and is quite different from what is usually on the menu. Brazil does an outstanding savory-sweet, nutty, low-acid profile better than anywhere else, and a well-made pulp natural is the cleanest way to allow those expressions to come forward.
Pulp Natural: Cherries are mechanically depulped, then dried with a layer of mucilage still on the bean, no fermentation tank or rinse cycle. The dried mucilage acts like a thin honey coat, giving you something between a washed cup and a honey process: mild, nutty, lightly sweet, with a touch more body than a fully washed Brazil.
Cupping notes: Roasted nuts open into caramel-drizzled peanut and almond meal. Mid-palate moves to cocoa-dusted almond. Finish lands at chocolate-dipped pretzel, savory and sweet at the same time. Mild body, mild acidity, very approachable. It is a good light-to-medium drinker, and it pulls cleanly as espresso.
Resting: Best 21+ days after roast.
Best brewed as: Moccamaster, Clever Dripper, or espresso.
8 oz. / 227 g WHOLE BEAN
Country: Brazil
Region: São Sebastião da Bela Vista, Sul de Minas
Producer: Andréia Moreira, Fazenda São José
Varietal: Modern Hybrids
Process: Pulp Natural
Roast Level: Light
Elevation: 900-1,200 masl
Tasting Notes: Caramel, Peanut, Almond, Cocoa
Good For: All Brew Methods, including espresso
Body: Medium, Smooth
(Coffee is roasted on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month. Orders placed by 5:00 PM EST on the preceding Tuesday are included in that week's roast and ship Friday. Orders placed after the cutoff will be roasted in the next cycle.)
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